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519 Celebrates Canada Day 159 with Early Canadian Poetry
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Happy Canada Day! To celebrate Canada’s 159th birthday, we’re offering up a few selections from early Canadian poets. Enjoy these short readings from our country’s literary history. Poems read in this episode include:
- The Old Red Shirt by Rebecca Gibbs
- Marshlands by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
- Women's Rights by Anna Louisa Walker
- At Niagara (1911 version) by R. Nathaniel Dett
- The Blue Flower by Helen M. Merrill
- Life by Mary Morgan
We hope you'll enjoy this selection of early Canadian poetry. You can find more examples of contemporary Canadian poetry to fill your long weekend here on the podcast.